Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti) ॐ जय शिव ओंकारा (शिवजी की आरती)
The best-known Hindi aarti of Shiva, sung at the evening lamp-offering. Its refrain hails Shiva as Omkara, and its stanzas describe the one Lord seen as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva: their faces, mounts, arms, garlands, garments and companions, ending with the teaching that the three are one in the syllable Om.
- Deity Shiva
- Type Aarti
- Language Hindi
- Tradition Shaiva
- Source Grihastha Dharma — ed. Mansukhrai Mor, Calcutta (1946 and 1950 printings) — 1946 printing, pages 74–75 (archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.308604, leaves 269–270); 1950 printing pages 162–163 compared
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Refrain 1
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जै शिव ओंकारा ।jay śiv oṃkārā har jai śiv oṃkārā |ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജൈ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ।
ब्रह्मा विष्णु सदाशिव अर्धंगी धारा ॥brahmā viṣṇu sadāśiv ardhaṃgī dhārā ||ബ്രഹ്മാ വിഷ്ണു സദാശിവ അര്ധംഗീ ധാരാ ॥
Meaning of this verse
Victory to Shiva, the Omkara; hail, Hara, victory to Shiva the Omkara. You are Brahma, Vishnu and Sadashiva, who holds his consort as half of his body.
Stanza 1
एकानन चतुरानन पंचानन राजै ।ekānan caturānan paṃcānan rājai |ഏകാനന ചതുരാനന പംചാനന രാജൈ ।
हंसासन गरुड़ासन वृषभासन साजै ॥haṃsāsan garuṛāsan vṛṣabhāsan sājai ||ഹംസാസന ഗരുഡാസന വൃഷഭാസന സാജൈ ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जै शिव ओंकारा ॥jay śiv oṃkārā har jai śiv oṃkārā ||ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജൈ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ॥
Meaning of this verse
The three forms shine with one face, four faces and five faces, and appear seated on the swan, on Garuda and on the bull. Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Stanza 2
दोयभुज चार चतुर्भुज दशभुज ते सोहैं ।doyabhuj cār caturbhuj daśabhuj te sohaiṃ |ദോയഭുജ ചാര ചതുര്ഭുജ ദശഭുജ തേ സോഹൈം ।
तीन रूप निरखता त्रिभुवन जन मोहैं ॥tīn rūp nirakhatā tribhuvan jan mohaiṃ ||തീന രൂപ നിരഖതാ ത്രിഭുവന ജന മോഹൈം ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जै शिव ओंकारा ॥jay śiv oṃkārā har jai śiv oṃkārā ||ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജൈ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ॥
Meaning of this verse
With two arms, four arms and ten arms they look splendid; seeing the three forms, the people of the three worlds are enchanted. Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Stanza 3
अक्षमाला वनमाला रुण्डमाला धारी ।akṣamālā vanamālā ruṇḍamālā dhārī |അക്ഷമാലാ വനമാലാ രുണ്ഡമാലാ ധാരീ ।
चन्दनमृगमद चन्दा भाले शुभकारी ॥candanamṛgamad candā bhāle śubhakārī ||ചന്ദനമൃഗമദ ചന്ദാ ഭാലേ ശുഭകാരീ ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जय शिव ओंकारा ॥jay śiv oṃkārā har jay śiv oṃkārā ||ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ॥
Meaning of this verse
They wear the rosary of beads, the garland of forest flowers and the garland of skulls; sandal paste and musk, and the moon on the brow, bring auspiciousness. Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Stanza 4
श्वेताम्बर पीताम्बर बाघम्बर अंगे ।śvetāmbar pītāmbar bāghambar aṃge |ശ്വേതാമ്ബര പീതാമ്ബര ബാഘമ്ബര അംഗേ ।
सनकादिक प्रभुतादिक भूतादिक संगे ॥sanakādik prabhutādik bhūtādik saṃge ||സനകാദിക പ്രഭുതാദിക ഭൂതാദിക സംഗേ ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जय शिव ओंकारा ।jay śiv oṃkārā har jay śiv oṃkārā |ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ।
Meaning of this verse
Their bodies are clad in white, in yellow and in tiger-skin; with them are Sanaka and the sages, the lordly gods and the hosts of spirits. Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Stanza 5
कर मध्ये कमंडलु चक्र त्रिशुल धरता ।kar madhye kamaṃḍalu cakra triśul dharatā |കര മധ്യേ കമംഡലു ചക്ര ത്രിശുല ധരതാ ।
जगकर्त्ता जगभर्त्ता जग संहार कर्त्ता ॥jagakarttā jagabharttā jag saṃhār karttā ||ജഗകര്ത്താ ജഗഭര്ത്താ ജഗ സംഹാര കര്ത്താ ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जय शिव ओंकारा ।jay śiv oṃkārā har jay śiv oṃkārā |ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ।
Meaning of this verse
In their hands they hold the water-pot, the discus and the trident; they are the maker of the world, its sustainer and its destroyer. Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Stanza 6
ब्रह्मा विष्णु सदाशिव जानत अविवेका ।brahmā viṣṇu sadāśiv jānat avivekā |ബ്രഹ്മാ വിഷ്ണു സദാശിവ ജാനത അവിവേകാ ।
प्रणव अक्षरनु मध्ये ये तीनों एका ॥praṇav akṣaranu madhye ye tīnoṃ ekā ||പ്രണവ അക്ഷരനു മധ്യേ യേ തീനോം ഏകാ ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जय शिव ओंकारा ॥jay śiv oṃkārā har jay śiv oṃkārā ||ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ॥
Meaning of this verse
Those without discernment take Brahma, Vishnu and Sadashiva as separate; within the sacred syllable Om these three are one. Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Stanza 7
त्रिगुणस्वामीजीकी आरती जो कोई नर गावै ।triguṇasvāmījīkī āratī jo koī nar gāvai |ത്രിഗുണസ്വാമീജീകീ ആരതീ ജോ കോഈ നര ഗാവൈ ।
भगत शिवानन्द स्वामी, मन वांछित फल पावै ॥bhagat śivānanda svāmī, man vāṃchit phal pāvai ||ഭഗത ശിവാനന്ദ സ്വാമീ, മന വാംഛിത ഫല പാവൈ ॥
जय शिव ओंकारा हर जय शिव ओंकारा ॥jay śiv oṃkārā har jay śiv oṃkārā ||ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ഹര ജയ ശിവ ഓംകാരാ ॥
Meaning of this verse
Whoever sings this aarti of the lord of the three gunas, says the devotee Shivanand Swami, obtains the fruit the heart desires (the text's traditional statement of benefit). Victory to Shiva, the Omkara.
Read in another script: ગુજરાતી বাংলা தமிழ் తెలుగు ಕನ್ನಡ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ · letter-for-letter from the Devanagari text, approximate
Edition: Grihastha Dharma (गृहस्थ धर्म), ed. Mansukhrai Mor, Calcutta, 1946 printing (Digital Library of India, archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.308604), section "अथ त्रिगुण आरती शिवजी की", printed pages 74–75 = scan leaves 269–270 (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.308604/page/n269). The text download of this item returns HTTP 500, so the OCR was taken from its DjVu XML (2015.308604.Grahastha-Dharm_djvu.xml, OBJECT 269–270); that OCR is poor, and all 23 lines were read from the page images (enlarged crops). The print prefixes the Sanskrit dhyana verse कर्पूरगौरं करुणावतारं…, which is a separate text and is not included here. Verified on 11 November 2026 line by line against four other prints: (A) the 1950 printing of the same book (archive.org in.ernet.dli.2015.343489, printed pages 162–163 = leaves 520–521, OCR lines 17131–17170, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.343489/page/n520), a different typesetting that adds a verse "काशी में विश्वनाथ विराजे नन्दी ब्रह्मचारी। नितउठ भोग लगावत महिमा अति भारी॥" after stanza 6; (B) Arati Sangrah, Agarwal Boot House (archive.org gkXN_arati-sangrah-agarwal-boot-house, OCR lines 641–660); (C) Shri Aarti Sangrah (archive.org 0153-aarti-sangrah_202601, OCR lines 446–469, page 13); (D) Aarti Chalisa Sangrah (archive.org hindi-book-aarti-chalisa-sangrah, OCR lines 525–534 and 7649–7664, two versions). cmp.py --loose after window alignment, final text vs A: 8 of 23 lines identical, 15 differing pairs, letter agreement 88.5%; vs B: 2 identical, 21 differing, 79.7%; vs C: 3 identical, 20 differing, 81.5%; vs D: 3 identical, 20 differing, 88.5%. Every line of the edition is confirmed by A except the readings listed below, and the modern prints differ only in the common-form variants listed under variants. Readings of the 1946 print kept against the witnesses: refrain "जय शिव ओंकारा हर जै शिव ओंकारा" (no ॐ; जै in refrains 1–3, जय in full in refrains 4–8; A has जै in 1–3 and 5–6; B "हर शिव ओंकारा"; C "भज शिव ओंकारा"; D "भज हर शिव ओंकारा" / "ॐ जय शिव ओंकारा स्वामी जय शिव ओंकारा"); अर्धंगी (A same; B–D अर्द्धांगी); वृषभासन (A–D वृषवाहन); दोयभुज … ते सोहैं (B दो भुज … ते सोहे; C, D अति सोहै); तीन रूप निरखता त्रिभुवन जन मोहैं (A तीनों … जग मोहैं; B निरखता त्रिभुवन जन मोहे; C, D निरखते त्रिभुवन-जन/मन मोहै); चन्दनमृगमद चन्दा भाले शुभकारी (A चन्द्रा; B कंदन मृगमद लोचन भाले शशिधारी; C त्रिपुरारी कंसारी करमाला धारी; D चंदन मृगमद चंदा सोहै त्रिपुरारी); बाघम्बर (C, D बाघाम्बर); प्रभुतादिक (A same; B, D ब्रह्मादिक; C गरुडादिक); कमंडलु चक्र त्रिशुल धरता (B कमण्डलू … त्रिशूल धर्ता; C सुकमण्डलु चक्र शूलधारी); जगकर्त्ता जगभर्त्ता जग संहार कर्त्ता (B जगकरता जगहरता जगपालन करता; C, D सुखकारी दुखहारी जग-पालनकारी); प्रणव अक्षरनु मध्ये ये तीनों एका (B प्रणवाक्षर के मध्ये यह तीनो एका; C, D प्रणवाक्षरमें शोभित ये तीनों एका); त्रिगुणस्वामीजीकी आरती जो कोई नर गावै (B त्रिगुण शिव को आरती; C त्रिगुणस्वामिकी आरति; D त्रिगुण शिव जी की आरती); भगत शिवानन्द स्वामी, मन वांछित फल पावै (A भगत … पावे; B, D कहत शिवानन्द स्वामी; C भनत शिवानन्द स्वामी मनवाञ्छित पावै). The Kashi verse of A is not part of the 1946 print and is not added. OCR corrections to the 1946 scan: the DjVu OCR garbles nearly every word (e.g. जोंकारा/शफारा, अद्या, प्रपभासन, घन्देनंसगमदू, क्षग्भरत्ता), so all 23 lines were set from the page images; no word was taken from a witness against the print, and the readings agree with the OCR of A wherever A has the same wording. The per-line OCR-to-print log is kept in the editorial build script (tools/aarti_build.py). Verse-by-verse meanings: an in-house paraphrase by the Udyog Jyotish editorial team, not a translation.
The Roman line is IAST transliteration derived from the Devanagari (ā = long a, ṃ = anusvara, ḥ = visarga, ś/ṣ = sh sounds, c = ch as in “church”). In Hindi, Awadhi and Braj texts the silent final “a” is dropped. Transliteration does not show Vedic accents.
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Questions
What is Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti)?
The best-known Hindi aarti of Shiva, sung at the evening lamp-offering. Its refrain hails Shiva as Omkara, and its stanzas describe the one Lord seen as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva: their faces, mounts, arms, garlands, garments and companions, ending with the teaching that the three are one in the syllable Om.
Who is Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti) associated with?
Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti) is associated with Shiva. Mahadeva, worshipped as the auspicious one, lord of yoga and of transformation; the central deity of Shaiva traditions.
What does Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti) mean?
Stanza by stanza: the three forms have one, four and five faces and ride the swan, Garuda and the bull; they have two, four and ten arms, and the three worlds are charmed to see them; they wear the rosary, the forest garland and the garland of skulls, with sandal and musk and the moon on the brow; they are clad in white, yellow and tiger-skin, attended by Sanaka and the sages, by the gods and by the bhutas; their hands hold the water-pot, the discus and the trident, for they create, sustain and dissolve the world; those who do not discern see Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as three, but within th…
What is the source of Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti)?
Traditional devotional text (common printed and recited form) — Shiv aarti "Jai Shiv Omkara" (त्रिगुण आरती); traditional text whose closing line names Shivanand Swami. Tradition: Shaiva.
Are there different versions of Om Jai Shiv Omkara (Shiv Aarti)?
The common form sung today opens "ॐ जय शिव ओंकारा, स्वामी (or हर) जय शिव ओंकारा", reads अर्द्धांगी, वृषवाहन, "दो भुज चार चतुर्भुज दसभुज अति सोहे / तीनों रूप निरखते त्रिभुवन जन मोहे", "चन्दन मृगमद सोहे भाले शशिधारी", ब्रह्मादिक, "कर के मध्य कमण्डलु चक्र त्रिशूलधारी / सुखकारी दुखहारी जगपालनकारी", "प्रणवाक्षर में शोभित ये तीनों एका" and closes "त्रिगुण स्वामी जी की आरती जो कोई नर गावे / कहत शिवानन्द स्वामी मनवांछित फल पावे". This version keeps the 1946 print: refrain without ॐ ("हर जै शिव ओंकारा"), वृषभासन, "तीन रूप … जन मोहैं", चन्दा, प्रभुतादिक, "जग संहार कर्त्ता", "प्रणव अक्षरनु मध्ये", "भगत शिवानन्द स्वामी". The 1950 printing of the same book adds a stanza "काशी में विश्वनाथ विराजे नन्दी ब्रह्मचारी / नितउठ भोग लगावत महिमा अति भारी", which most prints omit and which is not included here.